Jessica Burnett, PT of Pupil Support at St Josephs Academy shared a picture and details of their fantastic counselling room. They wanted to make it a welcoming and calm space for their young people and ensure it had helpful information for them to access in it. We hope you will find this useful when organising your own safe space for counselling/group sessions.
Currently the room has the following items:
- Couch
- Lava lamp
- Lamp for mood lighting
- Phone (can make external calls or internal)
- List of Internal phone numbers for all staff
- Tissues
- Fidget toys / stress balls
- Small table
- Posters with numbers for Samaritans, Breathing Space & Childline
- Pillows
- Throw
- Bean bags
- Colouring books
- Coloured pencils
Our librarian is extremely supportive of pupils and mental health so developed mental health bags that pupil can access through the library so pupils to take home if needed, all contain similar items.
We have put a display outside the room with photos of the counsellors, names and days/times in school. 
